RPG Superstar™ Top 8 Announced!

The Top 8 for RPG Superstar have been announced and are advancing to Round 4, where our contestants will be creating a Golarion Location, Map and Encounter. The plot thickens, as they will also be playtesting these Encounters and using monsters from the Pathfinder Battles Heroes & Monsters miniatures. In this round, fan votes determine who advances to Round 5, in which the Top 4 will submit a Pathfinder Module adventure proposal. All finalist submissions, complete with judge and reader commentary, are posted to the paizo.com messageboards.

The Top 8 have until Friday, February 24 to complete their write up on their Location, Map and Encounter. On February 28, Paizo will reveal judge comments on all 8 submissions to the general public, who will then get to discuss the entries and vote for their favorites, as well as engage in the playtest. Voting starts on March 6 and ends March 12, and the Top 4 (by votes) will move on to Round 5.

The ultimate winner of RPG Superstar, announced April 3, 2012, will write a Pathfinder Module to be published in early 2013. The 2011 RPG Superstar champion module, Sam Zeitlin’s The Midnight Mirror, releases in April 2012.

Congrats, top 8! Even though I got destroyed in last year's encounter round, it was actually the one I had the most fun doing and is still the the one I look forward to the most in this competition(beside the adventure pitch).

Congrats to all 8 of you to advance to the next round. I hope you're all in it to win it now, as there's no going back from this point. I look forward to seeing what you come up with for your encounters, as I'll be judging this round and keeping a close eye on everyone from here on out as a possible freelancer (regardless of final placement).

It is one thing to get top 32. That is quite an honor. That means you had the mojo to catch our eye. That is hard enough.

Then Top 16 means you delivered again with a solid organization and showed promise for more to come.

Top 8 means you are starting to develop the kind of consistent and appealing resume that could make you a future RPG Superstar winner.
And don't forget, people from Top 8 on have gone on to some serious freelancing even if they don't win it all. So you have already arrived in some pretty rarified air.

But don't take your foot off the gas. Slam that pedal down! The finish line is still a way off, but it should be coming in sight.

You guys really should be proud of yourselves. Candidly, I dont think I could get this far in the contest.

Good job, guys! Best wishes over the next three days. I recall round 4 being by far the hardest to get done. Got very little sleep this time last year. And we didn't have the extra burden of knowing people would be playtesting our entries.
So. Y'know. No massive, overwhelming, crushing pressure or anything. :-)

Congratulations to those who got through and commiserations to those that didn't. One of my favourites has been knocked out, so particular commiserations to Andrew Marlowe, but I still have 2 in the running.
I'm looking forward to seeing the maps and encounters.

Congratulations to those who got through and commiserations to those that didn't. One of my favourites has been knocked out, so particular commiserations to Andrew Marlowe, but I still have 2 in the running.

I'm looking forward to seeing the maps and encounters.

Every single year I have someone who I really am impressed by that doesn't get by the voters. Seriously, every single year. Year one, it was Sam and the migrus. And then every year since then.

Congratulations to the contestants, and woot woot for Round 4! Things get very interesting as the competitors get the chance to explore Golarion, catch all of our imaginations by expanding the world, and give us an exciting encounter with fun possibilities. Good luck folks!